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		<title>Viśiṣṭādvaitins speaking of Advaitins</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The following passage is from Yāmuna&#8217;s Ātmasiddhi and it is a description of the Advaita position about the brahman as being tantamount to consciousness: ato &#8216;syā na meyaḥ kaścid api dharmo &#8216;sti. ato nirdhūtanikhilabhedavikalpanirdharmaprakāśamātraikarasā kūṭasthanityā saṃvid evātmā paramātmā ca. yathāha yānubhūtir ajāmeyānantātmā iti. saiva ca vedāntavākyatātparyabhūmir iti (ĀS, pp. 29&#8211;30 of the 1942 edition) Therefore [&#8230;]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following passage is from Yāmuna&#8217;s Ātmasiddhi and it is a description of the Advaita position about the brahman as being tantamount to consciousness:</p>
<blockquote><p>ato &#8216;syā na meyaḥ kaścid api dharmo &#8216;sti. ato nirdhūtanikhilabhedavikalpanirdharmaprakāśamātraikarasā kūṭasthanityā saṃvid evātmā paramātmā ca. yathāha yānubhūtir ajāmeyānantātmā iti. saiva ca vedāntavākyatātparyabhūmir iti (ĀS, pp. 29&#8211;30 of the 1942 edition)</p>
<p>Therefore this (consciousness) has no characteristic as its knowable content. Therefore, this very consciousness  is eternal, uniform and it consists of light-only, without characteristics, in which all conceptualisations of difference have been dissolved. This consciousness alone is the self (ultimately identical with the single brahman, but illusory identified as one&#8217;s own self) and the supreme self (i.e., the brahman). As it has been said: &#8221;That experience (i.e., consciousness) is unborn, cannot become a knowledge content, it is endless, it is the self&#8221;*. And this alone is the ultimate meaning (tātparya) of the Upaniṣads&#8217; sentences.</p></blockquote>
<p>The quote within the passage (yānubhūtir ajāmeyānantātmā) could be from Vimuktātman’s <em>Iṣṭasiddhi</em> (1.1: yānubhūtir ajāmeyānantānandātmavigrahā |<br />
mahadādijaganmāyācitrabhittiṃ namāmi tām ||).*</p>
<p>Yāmuna&#8217;s description seems fair to me. <strong>Do readers more expert in Advaita agree?</strong></p>
<p><small>*I am grateful to Anand Venkatkrishnan for his help in identifying this quote.</small></p>
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